Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 June 2014.
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Background to the Committee's inquiry
Our inquiry
The Committee's Interim Report
Other relevant Justice Committee reports
The role of the probation service
Youth justice
Women offenders: after the Corston report
Departmental savings
2 Trends in crime and re-offending
Trends in recorded crime since 2010
Trends in recorded re-offending since 2010
The relationship between rates of crime and re-offending and crime reduction policies
3 Developments in crime reduction since 2010
The Government's strategic priorities for the reduction of crime
Governance arrangements to support crime reduction
The National Criminal Justice Board
Elected Police and Crime Commissioners
Other developments
The Government's approach to reducing the costs of the criminal justice system
Changes in the prison population
Crime reduction initiatives
Efforts to implement payment by results
Early intervention
Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme
The Troubled Families programme
Family Nurse Partnerships
Efforts to improve the evidence-base
4 The coherence of crime reduction policies
Crime as a cross-departmental issue
The breadth and depth of cross-Government activity
Governance at national level
Governance at local level
The role of police and crime commissioners
Integration between public health and crime agendas
Tensions between national and local priorities
The impact of Transforming Rehabilitation reforms
Progress on key crime reduction initiatives
Restorative justice
Access to mental health treatment
Access to drug and alcohol misuse treatment
Courts and prisons: missing links?
The role of courts in crime reduction
The role of prisons in crime reduction
The impact of spending reductions on local partnerships
Prison safety and rehabilitative effectiveness
Innovation in courts: a casualty of the cuts?
The evidence-base for crime reduction policy-making
The relationship between research and policy-making
Washington State Institute for Public Policy
The potential of technology in targeting crime reduction activity
5 Revisiting a justice reinvestment approach?
Developments in the implementation of justice reinvestment approaches in the US
Texas case study
Developments in the implementation of justice reinvestment approaches in England and Wales
Greater Manchester Justice Reinvestment case study
Transforming Rehabilitation and justice reinvestment
Freeing resources to invest in crime prevention
The nature of the financial incentive
Future devolution of custodial resources to local communities?
A note on political rhetoric
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of published written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral evidence
Wednesday 11 September 2013: Rt Hon Alun Michael, Police and Crime Commissioner, South Wales, Katy Bourne, Police and Crime Commissioner, Sussex, and Sue Mountstevens, Police and Crime Commissioner; Dr Alison Frater, Head of public health and offender health for London, NHS England, Dr Éamonn O’Moore, Director for Health and Justice, Public Health England, Councillor Claire Kober, London Councils, and Councillor Joanna Spicer, Vice-Chair Safer and Stronger Communities Board, London Government Association
Tuesday 12 November: Ian Mulheirn, Associate Director, Oxford Economics, Toby Eccles, Founder and Development Director, Social Finance, Tom Gash, Director of Research, Institute for Government, and Max Chambers, Head of Crime and Justice, Policy Exchange; Sue Hall, Chair, Probation Chiefs Association, Sebert Cox, Chair, Probation Association, and Oliver Henman, Head of Partnerships, National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Wednesday 4 December 2013: Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, and Jeremy Wright MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Prisons and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Justice
Tuesday 21 January 2014: Professor Cynthia McDougall, Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of York, Professor Gloria Laycock, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, Professor David Farrington, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology and Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Professor Stephen Farrall, Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield
Tuesday 28 January 2014: Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos MORI, Professor Andromachi Tseloni, Professor of Criminology, Loughborough University, and Professor Mike Hough, Professor of Criminal Policy and Associate Director, Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London
Tuesday 4 February 2014: Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Eoin McLennan-Murray, President, Prison Governors Association; Rob Allen, Independent Consultant, Mark Day, Prison Reform Trust, Sarah Salmon, Criminal Justice Alliance, and Frances Crook, Chief Executive, Howard League
Tuesday 25 February: Richard Monkhouse, Chair, Magistrates’ Association, Phillip Bowen, Director, Centre for Justice Innovation, Adam Pemberton, Assistant Chief Executive, Victim Support, and Penelope Gibbs, Director, Transform Justice
Wednesday 26 March 2014: Jeremy Wright MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister for Prisons and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Justice and Norman Baker MP, Minister of State for Crime Prevention, Home Office
